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BEIRUT — Foreign forces destroyed advanced Russian anti-ship missiles in Syria last week, rebels said on Tuesday – a disclosure that appeared to point to an Israeli raid . Qassem Saadeddine, spokesman for the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council, said a pre-dawn strike on Friday hit a Syrian navy barracks at Safira, near the port of Latakia. He…

Russia is ready to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights , President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, after Vienna said it would recall its troops from a U.N. monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria .

An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa. Speaking at a lecture on Saturday in the southern city of Beersheba, Yitzhak Ben Yisrael,Israel’s former cyber security adviser, said that a group calling itself “The Syrian Electronic Army” had launched the failed attack two weeks a…

Israel is prepared to attack Syria to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Israel’s air force chief said on Wednesday. Major-General Amir Eshel also said Israelis should brace for a protracted and painful conflict should their forces engage in combat with Hezbolla…

Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said.The attack, the second in three days and the third this year, signaled a sharp esca…

The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN.U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted a strike in the Thursday-Friday time frame, according to both officials.This is the same time frame that the U.S. collected additional data showing Is…

THE OFFICE of the assistant to the president for national-security affairs in the West Wing of the White House is a spacious, well-lit corner room in a building where space is at a premium. It contains not only the national-security adviser’s large desk but also a table for lunch discussions and other small meetings as well as a couch and easy chairs for…

A former Israeli defense minister alleged Monday that Syria’s chemical weapons are “trickling” to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the first claim by a senior politician in Israel that one of the country’s nightmare scenarios is coming true.Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who also called for international intervention in the Syria’s civil war to stop mass civ…

Israel has not commented on a report that Jordan has opened two corridors of its airspace for Israeli unmanned air systems being used to monitor the security situation in Syria. The claim first appeared in French newspaper Le Figaro .An unnamed source told the publication that Jordan decided to open the airspace following US President Barack Obama’s visit…